Friday, April 10, 2015

Kansas Aviation Portal unveiled at K-State-Salina

KDOT's Aviation Division unveiled
the Kansas Aviation Portal on the campus of Kansas State University-Salina
today.

In 2011, KDOT’s Aviation Division released the nation’s first
Airspace Awareness Tool, which was designed to increase the awareness of
potential obstacles around Kansas airports. The aviation portal builds upon the
original airspace tool with expanded capabilities and data layers that show
economic impacts, system plans, pavement conditions at airports and 3-D
animation.

“I’m proud of the Aviation Division for its continued
innovation with Kansas Aviation Portal,” said Transportation Secretary Mike
King. “We all use aviation to benefit the Kansas economy more than we know.
This portal gives users the chance to increase their knowledge of airspace
safety as well as learning about the benefits of Kansas airports.”

Director of Aviation Jesse Romo said the reason for the update was
simply to take advantage of improved technology.

“Anything technology based moves so quickly, this gave us a chance
to upgrade the Airspace Awareness Tool and make it more spectacular,” Romo
said. “Anyone can now learn more about our airports, the role they play in our
system and the economic benefits they provide to the community.”

The upgrade to the airspace awareness function includes the
ability to test new or proposed structures against the FAA’s notice criteria
tool. The tool will color code the proposed obstructions if they require an FAA
airspace study.

“It’s the first tool of its kind to put this much aviation data on
a single public site while using Google Earth and 3-D animated imagery,” Romo
said.

The portal which has been developed over the past year by KDOT and
Burns and McDonnell can be found at http://ksaviationportal.ksdot.org/. Access to the portal may require
a browser update.